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Originally Posted by dmaul1114
This discussion is just going to go nowhere.
You've got some people (largely outside of the US) that are fine with more socialist policies and having governments have a lot of leeway in regulating businesses. They think loser hackers should be able to mod their consoles, including mod them to steal games, and the company should be forced to be allowed to let people with these hacked consoles access THEIR network.
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I take offense to the "loser hacker" remark. I'm a hacker, but an ethical one (note, we're really not rare). I fully acknowledge I'm voiding warranties and any other support when I modify something, and what I modify isn't for anything illegal. My 360 that I use for gaming sits unmodded. My original xbox however will never see XBL again, and has new use doing media center duty. My GBA SP that I use for homebrew, is all legit. The Wall-e Toy on my bench getting an Arduino placed in it to expand it's functions, warranty voided and will never hassle the manufacturer. The myriad of other things I've hacked never once have caused issue for a company, and do nothing illegal. The most they do is allow me to not buy something, because I made something fulfill the function of that item.
Don't paint us all with the same brush because the bad ones get all the attention.